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FreeBSD 4.9-BETA i386 ISO With Packages Available
Dan writes "FreeBSD Release Engg. Team's Murray Stokely has put together a FreeBSD 4.9-BETA ISO image for i386 with the latest package build provided by portmgr@. If you haven't yet given 4.9PRE a try, hopefully this will encourage you to do so!"
...going to download and test it right now!!!! FreeBSD rox. 30% of all webservers run FreeBSD and the numbers are going up woooooooooo!!!!!!
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A word to the wise . . .
okay this is a little obscure but is anyone having problems with pxeboot and Soekris 4501 boards? I can only get the little guy to boot with 4.8-RELEASE, everything after including 4.9-PRE is not working for me. I've compiled it with the right flags and everything.
I already found & installed this gem last night.
The only problem that I had is that at the beginning of the install, an error was reported that the FireWire driver couldn't load. That was okay with me, since I have no FireWire hardware in the box.
Install, configuration, pkg_add of KDE & Mozilla all went smoothly on a stock Dell PowerEdge 400SC.
"Send an Instant Karma to me" - Yes
1. You can not play games on it.
Not true, but then again BSD operating systems were never meant for a gaming workstation, more on the lines of running the internet.
2. It cannot be used by my grandma.
I doubt your grandmother could use linux or windows either way.
3. It lacks a GUI of any note.
GUI is for the people who have to have others hold their hand. BSD doesnt need a GUI, but you can get Xwindows installed with it if you wanted it.
4. There is no support available for it.
Correction, there is no free support. This is true of Windows and Linux. However, there are mailing lists and chat rooms, much like there is for Windows and Linux.
5. It is an assortment of fragmented OSes.
Uhh get your facts straight idiot. BSD was developed from AT&T Unix.
6. It cannot be run on the x86 platform.
Maybe not the very first BSD operating system, but now any BSD os can run on x86, including Darwin. Hence get your facts straight
7. You have to compile everything and know C.
Compiling everything is a good thing, it allows for applications to be more robust, it allows for features to be added instead of packaged without some features.
8. Support for the latest hardware is always poor.
Maybe support for latest 3d video cards, but its always had good support for server hardware.
9. It is incompatiable with GNU/Linux.
Actually FreeBSD with linux compat libraries is faster then Linux. Get your facts straight.
10.It is dying.
Linux is dying, windows is dying, I'm dying, you're dying, everything will die. Your point? Exactly that, you have no point.
1. You can't play games on your washing machine, either, but a washing machine is hard to beat when the job at hand is to clean your clothing and bedding.
2. If *BSD had a built in vibrator your grandma couldn't use that, either.
3. The GUI comes with the desktop and with the various applications. Are you down on the engine of your automobile because it has no pretty paint job or a comfortable place to sit?
4. Do you even take enough responsibility in your life to put on your underwear with the tags in the back?
5. Lifesavers also come in various colors; what is your problem with such difficult concepts as that?
6. You're an incredibly proud person for being such a bad liar and idiot.
7. I have to wonder if you know what compiling is.
8. Such as? (Please state only the state of the art hardware that you have, please, assuming that you have any.)
9. What part of binary Linux compatibility do you not understand? Which part of the X Window System is compatible with GNU/Linux but is not compatible with *BSD? Use the space at the end of this line to answer, even if it's way more space than you need.
10. Except for your brain, which you have already largely shut down, your body is already dying at a much faster rate than *BSD is.
You have been trolled. Badly. Replies like that just make the trolls quiver with delight. Please don't feed the trolls.
I'm with you 99%.
Take your BSD socialism and shove it up where the sun don't shine!!!
Onto my hard drive? Done.
I'm running 4.8R here and loving it. I have every intention of putting 4.9 on when it becomes official, though I fear that PAE and ACPI might make it a little buggy. If enough people testify that it rocks like its older counterpart does, then 4.9 here I come!
Very nice
YHBT YHL HAND
Cool, I've wanted to see a FreeBSD vs Linux benchmark. What is FreeBSD faster in? This guy would like to know as well.
FreeBSD with Linux compat libraries faster than Linux? How so? This guy doesn't think so.